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Man Quotes
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
56
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
54
"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
Man,
53
"See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome."
52
"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention."
51
"It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin."
50
"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."
50
"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
49
"When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men."
48
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
47
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
47
"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
47
"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
47
"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children."
46
"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow."
46
"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
45
"Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse."
44
"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"
44
"But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves."
44
"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
44
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
43
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
43
"I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards."
42
"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests."
42
"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world."
42
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
42
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
42
"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity."
41
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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